Product Description

Prince Myshkin, the title character, has finally returned to St. Petersburg after several years in a Swiss sanitarium. He quickly finds himself thrown into a complicated web of relationships driven by money, power and romance. In the end, Myshkin's honesty, goodness and integrity are shown to be unequal to the moral emptiness of those around him. Dostoevsky's classic, translated by Eve Martin, has been revised and abridged for today's audience by Russian Studies scholar Thomas R. Beyer.Abridged audio CD; approximately 12.25 hours; 10 CDs; read by Simon Vance.

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In this literary classic, Fyodor Dostoevsky focuses on a nobleman whose gentle, childlike nature has earned him the nickname "the idiot," and presents a superb, panoramic view of mid-nineteenth-century Russian manners, morals, and philosophy.

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